A new essay argues that platforms like YouTube, Spotify, LinkedIn and Reddit increasingly control what users see rather than letting them choose, citing doomscrolling recommendations, AI-generated filler music, sponsored opinions on LinkedIn, and bot-driven discussions on Reddit. The piece uses the 'Tetris effect' to illustrate how sustained, algorithm-driven focus reshapes thought patterns without users' explicit consent.
alicegg.tech
· 2026-09-21
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that AI won't eliminate startup teams but will change who gets hired, favoring employees who can judge problems, execute independently and adapt across roles. The piece cites data showing 80% of CEOs plan to rebuild workflows, a projected 70% shift in job skills by 2030, a 73.4% drop in junior tech hiring in Europe, and a rise in single-founder U.S. startups from 23.7% to 36.3% since 2019.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-16
Work For America launched as a career-matching platform aimed at helping federal employees who lost their jobs transition into state and local government positions. The service has since expanded to welcome all job seekers, including those with no prior public sector experience, functioning much like a LinkedIn tailored specifically to government careers.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-16
A new LinkedIn survey finds that while Gen Z entrepreneurship is rising, 73% of Gen Z respondents say fear of bothering others, sounding inauthentic, or being judged stops them from networking. This hesitation persists even though 83% of older generations say they're willing to help strangers who reach out, a rate matched by Gen Z's own willingness to help when asked.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-15
A federal judge dismissed proposed class-action lawsuits accusing LinkedIn of improperly scanning users' browser extensions. The court ruled that the plaintiffs failed to show they suffered any concrete harm from the alleged scanning practice.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-11
A federal judge in California dismissed two proposed class actions accusing LinkedIn of illegally scanning users' browser extensions, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show they actually had extensions installed that leaked private data to the company. Judge Vince Chhabria allowed the plaintiffs to amend their complaints but expressed skepticism they could ever establish a valid privacy claim, given that browser extensions are voluntarily installed and inherently share data with websites. One plaintiff's attorney says he may refile in state court or appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-10
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that mass-personalized AI outreach, like generic cold LinkedIn messages and spam emails, is damaging brand credibility rather than building it. Instead, the piece advocates for marketing built on educational content and showcasing real client success stories to attract buyers who are already primed to purchase.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-10
Speakers at the Innovation Festival offered a set of 12 guiding principles meant to clarify what genuine innovation looks like, distinguishing it from the overused corporate buzzword it has become. The rules draw on their firsthand experience building and scaling new ideas across industries.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-10
In a LinkedIn post republished on his blog, engineer Bryan Cantrill criticizes the growing use of LLMs to write LinkedIn content, arguing the results are stylistically obvious and often poor quality. He points to telltale patterns like excessive emojis, choppy paragraphs, and 'not just...but also' phrasing as giveaways of AI authorship. Cantrill argues LinkedIn's own AI rewrite prompts encourage this behavior, worsening the platform's content quality.
bcantrill.dtrace.org
· 2026-09-06
AI-assisted incident response systems, sometimes called 'AI SREs,' can now detect alerts, diagnose root causes, and apply fixes without human intervention. A former LinkedIn SRE warns that as these tools absorb routine incident handling, engineers get fewer chances to build intuition about how their systems actually fail.
sylvainkalache.com
· 2026-09-05
A jobseeker was contacted on LinkedIn by someone posing as a recruiter and asked to complete an interview process that involved downloading a document. The file was actually malicious software, and within hours the attackers used it to drain £18,000 from his cryptocurrency accounts before disappearing.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-03
Two web tools, the LLM cliché highlighter and Slop Tells, scan text for stock phrases and stylistic quirks associated with AI-generated writing, such as certain idioms and sentence patterns that large language models tend to overuse. The tools aim to help writers identify and remove language that might make their work seem machine-generated, even when it isn't.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-03
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